Freedom. A Blue Jay flew in circles above the birdbath we had in our backyard the day my mother left. She left one cage only to walk into another. She…
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I don’t like having sex in the dark, but tonight is different. I don’t want my body to be scrutinised. I seek comfort in the absence of light. I usually enjoy…
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“Don’t call it a comeback,” raps LL Cool J. This summer the “Dining with a Cursed Bloodline,” column ended like a Disney Classic Movie. Marriage. Happily Ever After. Roll credits.…
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When I was ten, and my sister, Eunice, was eleven, we made a suicide pact. With a rusty hacksaw we snitched from my father’s workbench; we huddled on the wooden…
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WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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Image Credit: David Walker I think this is where the story starts, in 2003, in my grandma’s bedroom. It’s nearly midnight. The room is draped in the blue vibrating light…
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Woman, Running Late, In a Dress by Dallas Woodburn Yellow Flag Press, 2018 178 pages / Yellow Flag It’s confounding to have the ghost of your seven year old sister haunt…
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Butter, eggs and the emulsification of two people. My fingers gnaw at the frayed edges of a kitchen towel as lint snows all over my black pants and the familiar…
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She’ll iron her work shirts on your bathroom floor. She’ll drench your carpets in water she spills carelessly from sturdy plastic cups, and impressive torrents of tears the average hetero…
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[Image Credit: “The Song of Orpheus,” Barnett Newman] A. and B. met at a young professionals networking event. They discussed social media strategy, and each found the other attractive. She…
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Blood Eagle by Adam Crittenden Gold Wake Press, 2016 100 pages – Gold Wake / Amazon Love is bloody. It’s Blood Eagle bloody. It’s not just about heart and…
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I turn into the street, first house at the corner, I see the long house and the large pillar that holds the front porch. I pull into the curved driveway…